Servant Quotes - Page 37

• Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

  Charles G.D. Roberts

  Water, Masters, Very Good

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• We don't have to become big scholars, we don't have to become big supermen. We simply have to become a humble servant of Lord Krishna.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Humble, Humility, Lord

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• President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

  Aberjhani

  Art, Leader, Humanity

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

  Reginald Farrer

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Reginald Farrer (1973). “In a Yorkshire Garden”

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• Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

  Gerry Spence

  Sheep, Government, Giving

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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake

  God, Kissing, Luck

  William Blake (1979). “Complete writings: with variant readings”

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• That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hero, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Ideas, Giving

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Technology, Masters, Dangerous

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• The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Dream, Powerful, Believe

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• It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Body

  Martin Luther (1967). “The Christian in society”

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• Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available resources?...Evil, stupidity, apathy, the 'system' are not the enemy...The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people...In short, the enemy is strong natural servants who have the potential to lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non-servant.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Strong, Real, Intelligent

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• The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!

  Benjamin F. Grady

  Honesty, Fighting, Men

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• Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

  David Foster Wallace

  Suicide, Thinking, Mind

  "This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. September 12, 2012.

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• We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

  Oprah Winfrey

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• And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Powerful, Class, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Wages, World

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• I think we should all be servants. To be really great in God's eyes is to be least among each other and serve each other.

  Larry Norman

  Eye, Thinking, Should

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• The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

  Nick Vujicic

  Faithful Servants, Soul, Done

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• I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

  Thomas Browne

  Heaven, Way, Scared

  Sir Thomas Browne (2012). “Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall”, p.58, New York Review of Books

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• Never, ever forget that you are a servant.

  David Neeleman

  Forget

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• Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

  Warren Buffett

  Guides

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• The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Physicians, Three

  Epidemics I

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• It will be enough to recall in th is sense that almost all the Countries arose, centuries ago, through cruel conquests. With exception, men have been squandering servants th at at the moment of adjustment did not appear to be worthy of the benefits received.

  Chico Xavier

  Country, Men, Benefits

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• It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation.

  Chico Xavier

  Jesus, Order, Path

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